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EV Charging Doesn't Need to Be as Fast as Gas, Ionna CEO Says
www.thedrive.com/news/ev-charging-doesnt-need-to-be-as-fast-as-gas-ionna-ceo-says
Replying to @Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club
owning a BYD EV here in Australia, 80% of my charging is at home, just plug in to a wall socket powered by mostly solar from my roof. 15% is destination charging eg when buying groceries, plug in, shop, unplug and go and only 5% is charging on a road trip.
Replying to @hanrahan@slrpnk.net
I love how people looking into getting a car will go crazy over range. All the while they have not driven more than 100k in a single day in the last 5 years.
Replying to @luftruessel@feddit.org
Or only gone on trips that is longer than the range like 8 times last 5 years.
Replying to @luftruessel@feddit.org
100k km is physically impossible to drive in a day, maybe you mean “in a single year”?
If you mean 100k meters (not sure why you just wouldn’t use km as an unit then), I have a few 200 km days a week, but the actual range anxiety comes from the fact that in the winter an EV loses a ton of range and if I need to use a public charger, I might as well just drive my current car instead of paying 15x as much to get into an used EV, since public charging is almost as expensive as diesel fuel.
Replying to @luftruessel@feddit.org
90% of the trips I do in a car are over 100km. For anything else I use public transport or a bicycle.